Sharp County record., 1887-11-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


ladies, Both we're instantly killed, as was
also the horse.
THE most destructive fire known for
many years is raging along the northern
ridge of the Blue mountains in PennSyl-
vania. Much valuable timber has been
DESTROYED and the loss will be very heavy
A gang of men are at work, but all efforts
et staying the progress of the fire seem
to be unavailing.
FIRE on the night of the 18th, at Syra.
cuse, N. Y, destroyed Barney & Lamb
ley's large dry goods store, George Z.
Young's dry goods store and Everson q
Co.'s hardware store. The total loss is
between $36O,OOO and $500, 900; insurance,
about $2j0,O00.
The bronze equestrian statue OF General
George Gordon Meade, erected in FAIR
mount park, Philadelphia, was unVaiied
ON the 18th, with appropriate ceremonies.
The unyailing ceremonies included grand
military pageant.
THE DetrotS continue to lay out the st.
Louis Browns with persistent regularity,
and at present writing (2Oth) they lack
but one game of being assured OF the
worlds championship.
THE Universalst general convention
was in session at New York on the 18th.
THE Crown Princes birthday was OBJ
served by the people of Berlin on the l9th'
A NATURAL gas explosion in Pittsburgh
Pa. on the 18th, caused serious loss OF lie
and property.
THE American Street Railway AssOcia-
ton met in convention at Philadelphia on
the 10Th.
INTERNATIONAL litigation is threatened
because of German infringement of patent
rights of American citizens
THE twenty first annual convention OF
American architects began its sessions at
Chicago on the 10th.
THE Agricultural convention in session
at Washington has effected a permanent
organization.
THE eleventh annual meeting of the
American Humane Association began at
Rochester, N. Y. on the 18th.
Mr.. WILLIAM JOHN EVELYN (COnserva-
tive), member of the British House of Com
m ons, will resign because of his inability
to agree with the government on the Irish
question
A NEW and sensational charge is pub
lished against General Boulanger, alleging
q war conspiracy between him and the
late Russian editor, Katkoff.
THE argument before the New York
Court of Appeals in the Sharpe case has
been postponed until the 9th instant. 1t
is announced that Jacob Sharpe'S lawyers
will carry his case up to the Supreme
Court of the United States if the Court of
Appeals decides against him.
AMONG the passengers for Liverpool on
the 10Th, on the steamship Germanic, was
DR.. Grant Bey, the celebrated physician
and archPologist of Cairo, Egypt.
IT is stated that BARLEY Campbell, the
dramatist, is recovering his sanity, and
will soon be released from the Middle
town IN. W asylum.
The Car of Russia has been hastily
summoned to st. Petersburg. He will
leave Copenhagen in few days.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers assembled in National convention
at Chicago on the 10Th.
1T9eerate rateSddaS IN ST' days. session of the Pro-
tas.o o,',.~l conSess at Louisville,
KY, On t6e 10TH, the higher education of
womea and other TOPICS were discussed.
The Russian schooner Johannes was
towed into the port of Copenhagen, Dem
mark, on the 18th. A carpenter had mur-
dered the captain and five of the crew,
and thrown their bodies overheard.
A TELEGRAM was received at the Marine
Hospital Bureau in Washington on the
18th, from Deputy Collector Spencer at
Tampa, Fla, saying that the outlook was
better, and that although there were ru-
mors of new cases they had not been con-
firmed. One death occurred on the 10Th.
Hon. w. A. STOWE, Democratic candi-
date for district judge in Omaha, Neb.,
was stricken with paralysis at late hour
on the night of the 18th, in Lincoln, and
his recovery is doubtful. He had not re-
gained consciousness on the 10Th.
REV. FATHER KERNER, pastor of the
Church of our Lady of Mount Carmel, New
York, who was injured in the ruins of the
schoolhouse he was building on East
One Hundred and Fifteenth street on the
18th, died at st. Francis Hospital on the
mcrning of the 18th.
SEVERE snow-StOrms have occurred
throughout Italy, greatly iniuring crops
and animals. The storms were accom-
panied by hurricanes in some parts. A
number of houses have been unroofed at
Pisa and several persons drowned in Lake
Como.
NJ. KUKI, the japanese Minister, who is
about to return home gave a dinner on
the night of the 10Th at the Arlington
Hotel, Washington, at which Secretaries
Bayard Fairchild and Lamar and several
justices of the Supreme Court were pres
ent.
IT is said at the State Department at
Washington that the nature of the ap-
preaching fishery conference is generally
misunderstood. The conference carries
with it no authority or power. 1t can
merely result in the negotiation of a
treaty subject to approval by the Senate
The presidential party were received
and entertained at Montgomery, Ala, on
the Goth, and in the evening started for
Washington.
THERE was no game in the worlds base
ball championship series on the 2jth, rain
at Washington causing its postponement.
The funeral of Rustem Effend, secretary
of the Turkish Legation, took place at
Washington on the 10th.
Mrs. JAMES A. GARFIELD and her
daughter, Miss Mollie, who were passen.
gers on the steamer Arizona from New
York, arrived at Liverpool on the Goth.
A DISPATCH of the 20th announced the